Pleiades and radar imagery in tracking water level fluctuations in reservoirs
Imagerie Pléiades et radar pour le suivi du marnage de plans d'eau
Abstract
Tracking water level fluctuations is important to the study and management of waterbodies. A geographic object-based image analysis using very high spatial and temporal radar interferometry (Cosmo-Skymed and TerraSAR-X) and optical (Pléiades) imagery is adopted in this study for this purpose. A linear regression model was sufficient to correlate the water surface area of a mildly sloping and unencumbered littoral zone spatial subset (extracted from 14 images) to water surface altitude data from the field. Results are excellent (R² = 0.963 and RMSE = 0.42 m for the unsupervised classification) albeit limited by the need for field data and the presence of a mildly sloping and unencumbered littoral zone.
Domains
Environmental Sciences
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